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To promote stable, constructive labor-management relations through the resolution and prevention of labor disputes in a manner that gives full effect to the collective-bargaining rights of employees, unions, and agencies.

This case is before the Authority on exceptions to the award of
Arbitrator Donald Daughton filed by the Agency pursuant to section 7122(a) of
the Federal Service Labor - Management Relations Statute and section 2425.1 of
the Authority's Rules and Regulations. For the reasons stated below, it has
been determined that the exceptions must be dismissed as untimely filed. The
Union filed a response thereto.

The Arbitrator's award is dated August 5, 1987, and appears to have been
served on the parties by mail on the same day.

Under section 7122(b) of the Statute, as amended,
1
and section 2425.1 of the Authority's Rules and Regulations, as amended,
2
section 2429.21 of the rules, as amended,
3
and section 2429.22 of the rules, any exceptions to the Arbitrator's award had
to be either mailed to the national office of the Authority in Washington, D.C.
and postmarked by the U.S. Postal Service no later than close of business on
September 8, 1987 or, if filed in person, received at the Authority's national
office no later than that same date if the exceptions are to be timely filed.
However, the instant exceptions were filed in person at the Authority's
national office on September 9, 1987.

Accordingly, as the Agency's exceptions were untimely filed, they are
hereby dismissed.

Footnote 1 Section 7122(b) of the Statute was
amended by the Civil Service Miscellaneous Amendments Act of 1983 (Pub. L. No.
98-224, 4, 98 Stat. 47, 48 (1984)) to provide that the 30-day period for filing
exceptions to an arbitrator's award begins on the date the award is served on
the filing party.

Footnote 2 49 Fed. Reg. 22623 (1984). The
amendments to section 2425.1 of the Authority's Rules and Regulations are
applicable to exceptions pending or filed with the Authority on or after March
2, 1984.

Footnote 3 51 Fed. Reg. 45751 (1986). The
amendments to section 2429.21 of the Authority's Rules and Regulations are
applicable to exceptions pending or filed with the Authority on or after
December 31, 1986.